Hi

Sended this e-mail to the network forum... then found this one out, and here it is. Don't know if i shouldn't send the same questions to two forums, but maybe someone here can give a hand:

I've asked similar questions in the last few days, but i think that finally -or so i hope- i'm beggining to understand what my problems is. And please, don't laught . I have four CPUs, three of them runing Windows, and a forth running Slackware 9.1 wich i installed last week . I have two problems, wich i think should be threated differently:

i.- I want to connect to the internet (So i can finally download octave!). I have a Realteck RTL8019 card. The four computers and my whideband cable conection are conected through a HUB. Using the command network on the installation the only controler wich worked was dummy. then i runned ifconfig dummy0 up. To check that i can conect with something i typed ping 127.0.0.1, and got a series of messages like: 64 bytes from.... until Ctrl-C. So, i believe my card is working. From what I've read on the manuals, i believe i should now use dhclient. When i run dhclient dummy0 i get: dummy0: not found. it could be (that has to be a problem) that my dhclient.conf file is empty... ¿how do i configure it? Maybe i'm on the wrong track all along... is this the correct way to setup an internet conection?

ii.- I want to connect to my LAN. I believe that samba is the right tool. I made a smb.conf file from the smb.conf - sample file, some manuals and http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba-unofficial.html. but i have no idea about how to acces the files on the other machines! do i have to mount them (if so, how)?

After installing Slack, ¿what must one do to be able to conect to the internet? ¿if there a standar proccedure?

I'm a newbie eager to learn, but need to get this done before i start classes again!

Thanks a lot.

1. run netconfig ... I'll just assume you'll know what settings you have to put in there ^^
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start

you should be able to connect to www....

2. edit /etc/fstab...
add a line like
/<server>/<direcory> /mnt/<mountpoint> smbfs username=<username>,password=<password>,gid=users,uid=<username>,umask=000,workgroup=<workgroup>,ioc harset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp850,users,exec,rw,noauto 0 0

save...

create the mountpoint:
mkdir /mnt/<mountpoint>

type:
mount /mnt/<mountpoint>

connected ^^

assuming you have support for the smb network filesystem compiled in your kernel =P

Still no working... in netconfig i put the following: it first asks for a host name: i put the name a want (say, guayacan). Then it asks the domain, wich i look over in a window box (www.cantv.net). Then i say i want a dhcp connection. Then the dhcp hostname is requiered, and i've done 2 differents things: one, left the field in blanck, or put the ip adress of the dhcp host. press yes to say to overwrite, and then did what you told me (by the way, what happens when you tipe that? just for learning) and still am not abble to conect. The browser does not find any adress.

Like I explained in another double post of yours, its against our rules in which you should have read and agreed to when registering.

I will have the other thread closed.

Review our rules here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/rules.php

try, using a browser, to connect to http://192.168.1.1/

That's usually the default page for controls for a router. If you can see that, then the problem lies with your router settings, not your computer settings.

why DHCP ? your machine usually needs a static ip if you don't have a DHCP server running in your network...
remember to choose a ip thats in range of the subnet you will be going to use...
your router probably has the ip 192.168.0.1 or something like that....
just take the first 3 numbers of the ip of your router/gateway and change the forth ....in case your router has 192.168.0.1 set it to something like 192.168.0.64....and the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0...